"How are you feeling?" I ask Harry as I walk over to him, he's still in the hospital wing, but he's allowed out today.
"I'm fine, my arm all grown back."
"That's good" I say smiling.
"Where are Ron and Hermione?"
"They are getting started on the Polyjuice Potion. Me and Hermione got the ingredients early this morning, but we still need to steal from Snape today."
"Do you think our plan with work?" Harry asks, as he put his shoes on.
"Yeah, we all now our role, so if we stick to that, then we should be good."
He nods and looks at me. "Anyway, what happened last night with Colin?"
"I was coming to see you, I was almost here when I tripped over Colin, then Snape found us and he bought Colin here."
"But what happened to him, he looked frozen when I see him" Harry says.
"He's been petrified."
Harry was about to say something, but when Madam Pomfrey came walking over. "Mr Potter, you are free to leave, but if you feel unwell then come and see me."
"I will and thanks" she nods and walks off.
"Come on, Ron and Hermione were in the girl's bathroom."
"Why?" Harry asks looking confused.
"It's were we are making the Potion" he nods, and we walk out the hospital wing.
"Hold on, why are we making it there for?" he frowns.
"No one goes in there because it's haunted by ghost named Moaning Myrtle, she's a little sensitive and cries a lot, so people tend to avoid the bathroom."
I push open the girl's bathroom door and we walk in. "It's just us" I say making them jump.
"Oh Harry, Jade, you scared us" Hermione says.
"Sorry, didn't mean to" me and Harry sit down with them and Harry starts telling us all about how Dobby turned up last night and warned Harry that bad things are about to happen, and something like this has happened before.
"So, the Chamber of Secrets had been opened before?" Hermione asks.
"Yes, even Dumbledore said the same thing" I say as I sting the Potion so Hermione can put in another ingredient.
"Don't you see, Lucius Malfoy must have opened it when he was at school here and now he's told Malfoy how to do it, I wish Dobby would tell you what the kind of monster it is" Ron says.
"I would like to know too, I mean someone must have seen something running around the school" Harry says.
"Unless it can turn in invisible or turn into something else" I say.
"The sooner we get the rest of the ingredients of Snape, the better" Hermione says as she added in another ingredient.
Ron looks at Harry. "So it was Dobby who stopped us from getting on the train, and broken your arm?"
Harry nodded. "He says he's trying to save my life."
"You know what Harry, if he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you" Ron says.
"That's why I'm afraid of what he might do next" Harry says before sighing.
We spent another 10 minutes on the Potion then headed to our lesson which is Potions, we walk in and sit at the back of the room.
Hermione hands Harry the Filibuster firework, who quickly puts it in his pocket, soon the room was filled with students, Snape was talking about the Potion we were making, which was a Swelling Solution.
We get our ingredients and start making our Potion, Harry and Ron aren't really concentrating. Harry is waiting for the signal and Ron, well, he's just lazy.
We can see Snape walking over to us, we tried to act as normal as we could, he looked in Ron's cauldron "fail" Ron just nodded, then he looked in Harry's "fail" he says smirking. Harry turned away so he could roll his eyes.
Snape walked over to me and Hermione and looked in Hermione's cauldron first. "Outstanding" Hermione smiled to herself.
He looked in mine. "Hmm."
I frown and look at him. "Is hmm good or bad?"
"Good, outstanding and 5 points for you" I smile at him, he gives me a little nod, then walks off.
"He gave you 5 points" Hermione says.
"He gave Gryffindor 5 points" I say.
"He didn't say Gryffindor though, he said 5 point for you" Ron says.
"He did? I didn't even realise" and I really didn't, but hey, thanks for the points Sir. I look around the room and see he shouting at Neville. Poor Neville. Wait, this it the prefect time to sneak out.
Hermione must have been thinking the same thing because I heard her say "quickly Harry" he nodded and ducked under the table, he quickly stood up and throw the firework and it landed in Goyle's cauldron.
We all look at each other, that wasn't meant to happen. "Good shot though, right?" Harry asked smirking. We smile at him, then we see Goyle's Potion exploded, making his Potion go all over him, Draco and a few of other people.
I really wanted to see what happened, but Hermione was pulling me out the door. We quickly run to Snape's private stores, Hermione pulled out her wand and pointed it at the door.
"Alohomora" she whispers and we hear a little click and quickly open the door and rush inside.
"You look for powdered horn of a Bicorn and I will look for Shredded skin of a Boomslang" I say and she nods and we starts looking.
I look up and down the shelves, then I see a little label 'powdered horn of a Bicorn' I picked some up. "I've found what you were looking for" I say.
"And I've found what you was meant to be looking for" we look at each other and start laughing.
"Come on, we have to get back and quick" Hermione says and I nod.
We walk out the room and make sure that the door is closed behind us, then run all the way back to Snape's classroom. We sneak back and stand back around the table, half of the class are laughing their heads off, including Ron and Harry.
I look to see what they are laughing at and I see Draco's nose is the size of a little melon, he was having trouble holding up his head.
Snape walked over to his desk and pulled out a small bottle of something and gave it to Draco and his nose started going back to normal. He also gave the other people that got covered in the Potion.
We start to panic when Snape looked in Goyle's cauldron and pulled out the firework. "When I find out who threw this, I shall make sure that person is expelled" Snape says looking around the room, then his eyes fell on Harry and he didn't look away for a while, Harry swallows the lump in this throat and looks away.
The bell went off and we were allowed to leave. "He knew, he knew it was me" Harry says as we walk to the bathroom so we make add the ingredients.
"He's got no prove that it was you, so try not to worry about it" Hermione says.
We walk into the bathroom and find Moaning Myrtle crying, she looks at us. "Eww, it's you three" she says looking at me, Ron and Hermione.
Then she looks at Harry and her faces chances. "Oh, hello Harry."
"Erm, hi" we snigger under our breath and Harry gives us a 'shut up' look.
"I know that look, that looks means shut up, doesn't it?" Hermione asks. Harry nods.
"I knew it, I think I'm getting good at reading your eyes" she says smiling.
"Come on, let's put the ingredients in and get out of here" Ron says and we nod and walk over to the cauldron.
Me and Hermione start adding the ingredients and stir it. I pick up the door and look at the picture and it's the same colour as the Potion in our cauldron. "It saying here that once it turns brown, which it has, then that means it will be ready in 2 weeks."
"Now all we need to do is figure out how we are going to get their hairs and where we are going to put the real people so the don't walk in on us" Harry says.
"I've got some ideas, I just need to make sure that it will work out first" Hermione says.
Ron looks at his watch and sighs. "Come on, it's time for the duelling club" we nod and stand up.
"I've got to pick up Grace, so I will meet you there" I says they nod. We walk out the bathroom and they go right towards the Great Hall and I go left towards Hagrid's.
I knock on the door. "It's sissy" I hear Grace shouts, then the door fly's open and she jumps on me, I almost drop her.
"Missed me that much, have you?" I ask.
"Yes" I smile, then put her down. "Come here sissy" she grabs me hand, "watch what I can do" she drags me over to the table and sit down and picks up the pencil and writes her name without the words being there first.
"Well done Grace, you clever girl."
"Thank you sissy, Hagrid helped me."
I look at Hagrid and smile. "Thanks, she's been trying her hardest all week to do that."
"No problem, anyway shouldn't you be at your duelling club."
I look at my watch. "Yeah, it's starts in 2 minutes."
"You better hurry then, you don't want to miss any of the action" Grace picked up her things and put them in her bag, then put her shoes on.
We say good bye to Hagrid, then walk back up to the castle. We into the Great Hall, there's a Duelling club and we all put our names down, I look around and see Harry, Ron and Hermione standing at the front, I smile and we walk over there.
"Hey, have we missed anything?"
"No, the teacher isn't even here yet" Harry says.
"Who do you thinks it's going to be?" Ron asks.
"Maybe it's Flitwick, I heard he is good at Duelling" Hermione says.
"I can't see it being … Oh never mind here he comes now" Harry says, we look and see Lockhart going over to us.
"You spoke too soon Harry" I say smiling.
"I don't think we are going to learn a lot from him" Ron says.
"It's just an opportunity for him to show off" I say.
"Shh guys, we haven't even seen him duel yet" Hermione says.
"Yeah, he's probably good" Grace says smiling.
"Gather round, gather round, can everybody see, can you all hear me?" Lockhart says as he walks onto the stage, everyone looks at him "excellent, in light of the dark events of recent weeks, Professor Dumbledore has granted me permission to start this little Duelling Club to train you all in case you ever need to defend yourselves, as I myself have done on countless occasions, see my published work."
He takes off his robe and just throws it into the crowd and it lands on Grace, coving her. "Hey teacher" she shouts. I start laughing and help her get his robes off her.
"Sorry little girl, I didn't see you there" Lockhart says smiling.
"I'm not little" Grace says going on her tiptoes to try and make herself bigger.
"Here Hermione, you can use it has a blanket" I say handing her Lockhart's robes, she glares at me, then smiles and takes it off me.
"Wait, you're not going to actually use it has a blanket, are you?" Ron asks, frowning.
"Shh, Professor Lockhart is talking" she says not looking at Ron.
"She's definitely going to use that has a blanket" Ron whispers to me and Harry.
"We know" we whisper back, she glares at us.
"Let me introduce my assistant Professor Snape" he says and we all look to see Snape walking on the stage. "He has agreed to help me with a short demonstration. Now I don't want you youngsters to worry you will have your Potions Master when I'm through with him, never fear" Lockhart says grinning.
"How does he not realise that Snape is going to kick his arse" Harry whispers.
"Because his ego is bigger than his common sense" I whisper back.
"He heard you" Grace whispers, we look at her and she points to Lockhart who's looking right at us, so is everyone else. We might be experts on reading each other's eyes, but I think we need to work on our whispering skills.
"Have you two finished?" he asks.
Me and Harry look at each other, then at Lockhart. "Yes Professor" we say together and he gives us a weird look and starts talking again. Me and Harry laugh under our breath.
Lockhart and Snape walk toward each other and put their wands by their faces, then they put their wands by their said and bow their heads, they walk towards the other end of the stage and raise their wands.
"One, two, three -" Lockhart starts but Snape cuts him off "Expelliarmus" a flash of light comes out of Snape's wand and Lockhart flew back and landed on his back, that looked painful.
"Do you think he's alright?" Hermione asks.
"I think so, look he's standing up" Grace says.
I look and see Lockhart groaning as he stood up. "An excellent idea to show them that, Professors Snape, but if you don't mind me saying it was pretty obvious what you were about to do and if I had wanted to stop you, it would have been only too easy."
"Oh yeah, so obvious, that's why he landed on his arse" Ron whispers, making us laugh, well apart from Hermione who was just looking at Lockhart.
"Perhaps it would be prudent to first teach the students to block unfriendly spells" Snape says.
"An excellent suggestion Professor Snape, let's have a volunteer pair" Lockhart says looking around, almost everyone looks away.
"Ahh, Miss Turner."
"Bollocks" I whisper. Harry laughs.
"How about you?"
I look at him "Nah, I'm fine."
"Come on, don't be shy."
"Go on sissy" Grace says.
I sigh and walk on to the stage. "Now, who else?" Lockhart asks, looking around.
"Me" Draco says, walking onto the stage.
"Double bollocks" I mutter.
"At least you have a pair now" Harry smirks.
"Yeah, I don't think having a pair is going to help me somehow."
We look at each other and burst out laughing. Draco looks at me and smirked. He walks over to me and we put our wand up to our faces. "Scared Turner?" he asks smirking.
"No."
"You liar, I can see it in your eyes" I don't say anything. "I will go easy on you" he says smirking. I still don't say anything.
"On the count of three cast your spell to disarm your opponent only to disarm, we don't want any accidents here, one, two -" Lockhart start but was cut off by Draco shouting "Everte Statium."
I wasn't ready and the spell hits me in the shoulder and I do a little flip, well, that's what it felt like anyway, and land hard on the stage. That hurt.
"Sissy" Grace shouts as she runs over to me.
"I'm fine" I can hear Draco laughing. Snape looking at him like he wants to kill him. I sit up, my shoulder really hurts.
"Fancy another round Turner?" Draco asks laughing. I shake my head. "Weak" he says and some of his Slytherin friends laugh. I stand up and walk off the stage with Grace holding my hand.
"Right, who's next? How about you Mr Potter" Lockhart says and Harry nods and walks onto the stage.
Snape kept Draco on to duel Harry, they walk toward each other and out their wands to their face. "Scared Potter?"
"You wish."
"Remember only to disarm, one, two -" Lockhart's starts but Draco cut him off again. "Everte Statium" he says and it hits Harry making him flew backwards.
Harry got back up and shouted. "Rictusempra!" Draco flew backwards and landed on his arse. Snape grabs Draco's robes and lifts him up and pushes him to Harry.
"I said to disarm only" Lockhart says as they both get into position again.
"Serpensortia" Draco says and a snake comes out of his wand, the snake was making its way toward Harry.
"Don't move Potter, I'll get rid of it for you" Snape say walking towards it.
"Allow me Professor Snape" Lockhart says, stepping forward. He pointed his wand at the snake. "Alarte Ascendare" the snake flies into the air and lands on the stage and hisses in anger.
Shit, the snake is looking right at Grace. I go to move, but it hisses at me, then looks at Grace. I move and it hisses at me again. "Sissy" she says crying.
"Shh, it's ok, it's not going to hurt you."
"It's looking at me."
"Just close your eyes, and it will be gone soon" and she dose.
I look at Snape and give him a 'do something' look. He was about say a spell, but then Harry started doing that weird talking he did at the zoo, the snake moves and hisses at Grace.
I rush over to her and hug her so my back is to the snake. I hear it hiss like it's ready to attack, but then I hear Snape say "Vipera Evanesca" I turn my head and see the snake burst into flames.
"What the hell you playing at?" someone shouts.
Harry is looking around confused, I don't think that he understands that he's just talked to a snake again. He looks at me, then runs off the stage and out the room with Ron and Hermione following him.
I stay where I am and hug Grace tight. "Shh, it's ok, I'm here."
"That was so scary" she whisper into my chest.
"I know, but the snake as gone now" I say playing with her hair.
"Miss Turner" I look and see Snape standing there. "Are you both ok?"
"Yeah, Grace is just a little shaken up that's all."
"Come to my office, I've got a Potion that will help with that. I've also got a pain relief Potion for your shoulder" I nod and we follow him to his office.
Snape opens the door and we walk in and he closer the door behind us. "Sit down and I will get your Potions" we nod and I sit down and Grace sits on my lap, Snape walks off somewhere.
"You ok?" I ask Grace.
"Yeah" I play with her hair and just wait for Snape to come back.
We weren't waiting long when he came back with 2 Potions in his hand. "This one is for you" he hands me a blue liquid Potion, I take it from him. "And this one is for Grace, it will also help her to sleep tonight" he says handing me a pink liquid Potion.
"Grace."
"What?" she says in a sleepy voice.
"Drink this, it will make you feel better."
She takes it from me and sniffs it. "It smells horrible."
"It's probably going to taste horrible too, so you need to be a big girl and drink it all" she nods.
Grace starts to drink the Potion and gags. "I can't, I feel sick."
Snape bents down in front of her. "I know it tastes horrible, but it will make you feel better and help you sleep tonight."
"I can't" Snape sees rainbow sticking out of Grace's bag. He picks her up and puts her by his ears, like she's talking to him or something.
"Ok, I will tell her" Snape looks at Grace. "Rainbow has just told me to tell you that she would be the proudest doll in the world if you drink your Potion" Grace gasp.
"She did?" Snape nods.
What the hell is happening right now? Where's the real Snape gone?
"Are you going to make rainbow proud and show her that you can drink her Potion?" he asks. Graces nods and drinks her Potion.
She pulls a face and shivers, but she drinks it all, then takes rainbow from Snape. "Are you proud of me?" she makes her doll nod her head. "Yes" she says in rainbows voice. Grace hugs her and cuddles up to my chest.
That was cute. I look at Snape and smile. "Breath a word to anyone and I will take 1000 points from Gryffindor and give you detention for the rest of your life."
I laugh. "Don't worry, your secret is safe with me. I won't tell everyone what a big softy you really are."
"I'm not soft" he huffs.
"Right, because what you did there was you being hard as nails."
"That was nothing."
"You let your guard down for a few second and showed the real you" I liked that side of him.
Snape smirks and sits next to me. "Had Potter done that before?"
"Done what?"
"Talked to a snake."
"Yeah once before. We were at the zoo and he started doing that weird hissing he was doing back there and the snake looked at him and nodded every time Harry said something."
"Then what happened?"
"The glass to the snake tank disappeared and the snake got out."
"How did the glass disappear?"
"We don't know, what minute it was there and the next it was gone" I look at him. "Is talking to snakes normal in the wizarding world?"
"It's not a every common gift."
"But how can Harry talk to snakes?"
"I'm not sure" he mutters.
"I don't think he realised he could talk to snakes, I mean his face back there was the same one back at the zoo."
"it's not that surprising that he didn't know, it's not every day someone talks to a snake" Snape says.
I look at Grace and see that she's gone to sleep. I smile and hug her tight.
"What are your plans for Christmas?" Snape asks,
"We are staying there."
"How come?"
"Mom and dad are busy."
"Doing what?"
"Working"
"They work on Christmas?" I nod.
"What job do they do?"
Fuck! Why did he have to ask me that for? I have no idea what to say to that, so I don't say anything at all.
Snape looks at me confused. "Your parents aren't really at work, are they?"
"Of course they are."
"What do they do for work then?"
I shrug and Snape sighs. He looks at me. "Has Grace told you what she wants for Christmas yet?"
"No not yet. We were going to write her letter tomorrow. I'm really hoping that she asks for something that I can get her."
"And what if you can't?"
"Then I will try my hardest to get it for her, or something that roughly is the same."
"If you can't get what she asks for then come and see me and I will help you."
I look at him. "Really?" He nod and I smile at him.
"Come on, I will walk you to your common room."
I nod and move Grace so that her legs her wrapped around me and stand up. Snape picks up Grace's bag and we leave his office and head to the common room.